ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with Chook Field Barcelona stars Diego Calva and Georgina Campbell about carrying blindfolds and the movie’s various forged. The movie premieres on Netflix on July 14, 2023.
“From the producers of the worldwide phenomenon, Chook Field, comes Chook Field Barcelona, an growth of the movie that riveted audiences in 2018,” reads the movie’s official synopsis. “After a mysterious pressure decimates the world’s inhabitants, Sebastian should navigate his personal survival journey via the desolate streets of Barcelona. As he kinds uneasy alliances with different survivors and so they attempt to escape town, an sudden and much more sinister menace grows.”
Tyler Treese: Diego, the administrators have been telling me generally the actors most popular to really be blindfolded. What was your method to the blindfold scenes?
Diego Calva: I don’t know, it modifications all the way in which. So your method to act whenever you’re extra conscious of the sound, for instance, and also you’re not conscious of the house … so you progress in a different way. I don’t know, in some takes, it was fairly cool to really not see and attempt to discover that.
Georgina, your character is coping with a number of heavy themes all through this film, similar to despair, grief, and loss. What did you discover most fascinating concerning the arc on your character on this movie? I
Georgina Campbell: I believe it’s fascinating that she blamed herself quite a bit for one thing that’s occurred prior to now together with her brother, and she or he’s somebody that listens to different folks — she’s a therapist. She’s used to listening to different folks’s issues and attempting to assist them, however she doesn’t essentially do the identical factor to herself. So I believe via this movie and thru assembly Sebastian Mario Casas’ character, she form of learns that she wants to have a look at herself and the way she hasn’t handled grief from her previous
Diego, for any catastrophe film, the human interactions are simply as necessary as all the things else happening. Are you able to converse to the human aspect within the film and this fascinating dynamic the place they must put belief in others to outlive, however additionally they must be very cautious of all people they work together with?
Diego Calva: I believe in these films, in Chook Field, Barcelona, the brand new enemy can also be the people, and in each apocalyptic film, like with zombies, you’ve to concentrate on the human consciousness. So like, Mario’s not an excellent character on this one. [Laugh].
Georgina, the unique Chook Field was such an enormous hit. What actually was a pleasing shock is that this isn’t a retread. How satisfying was it that this universe is being expanded upon? We’re seeing fully new layers to it, and also you even have such a terrific, various forged. How nice was it whenever you learn the script and noticed what it was doing to actually develop the world?
Georgina Campbell: Yeah, I used to be actually amazed. The thought [is often] that numerous films that aren’t within the English language get picked up by America and so they get remade in English. This was form of a enjoyable twist on that. That they took an enormous Hollywood film and took it to a not English-speaking nation and made an growth on it. I assumed that was so thrilling and hopefully will carry folks that possibly usually wouldn’t watch movies that aren’t of their language to it. I simply suppose that the script is basically sensible. It’s totally different. It’s not a sequel. It’s telling its personal story and it’s giving a really totally different perspective than we’ve already seen within the first Chook Field.
Diego, Babylon was one in every of my favourite films final 12 months. What lesson did you be taught essentially the most from that entire expertise from filming to doing a lot press for that movie?
Diego Calva: I realized English for Babylon — I didn’t know any English on the time, however I spotted that there’s one other language that I truly converse, that’s film language. What I do, my craft … I can do it anyplace on the earth the identical. Like in China, in Barcelona, in Mexico, making films is identical.
